Ask HN: Foreign startup collecting payments from US companies?
After years of lurking on HN I have my first serious startup idea, the big problem for me is that I am Australian. The target market is mobile and web game developers, most of whom are in the US, and I'm wondering how to set up payments. So there's really two questions:
1) If you're a US startup/developer, how would you prefer to pay a foreign partner - is PayPal appropriate for business-to-business transactions? Credit card? Bank transfer? Some other way?
2) If you're a foreign startup, how did you collect payments from US customers? Do I need to get an Australian merchant account to accept CC payments? Can I, as a non-US citizen, start an American company so that BrainTree can give me an American merchant account?
I'm not asking for legal advice here, just some indication of how others have solved this problem before me.